1. Portraits

2. Portrait - A photograph that represents a specific person, a group of people, or an animal.
usually shows what a person looks like as well as revealing something about the subject's personality.

3. Formal Portrait
A portrait that emphasizes only the subject and de-emphasizes the setting.
Close - up

4. Formal Neutral background
In a studio – background cloth, seamless paper, a plain wall

5. Formal
Outdoors – in front of a hedge, sky, the ocean, or a solid color wall

6. Nadar – Gaspard-Felix Tournachon
French caricaturist & photographer
1st great portrait photographer
Created a rapport with his subjects and produced a “speaking likeness” portrait
Sarah Bernhardt, 1859

7. Speaking likeness – a portrait that revealed the subject’s personality
How can you create a rapport with the subject you are shooting?
Caption Victor Hugo

8. Write a script you could use to work with a subject who is nervous about having his or her photograph taken.
1 page

9. Environmental Portraits
a portrait executed in the subject's usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject's life and surroundings.
Painter (Anton Raderscheidt), 1926 (c) August Sander

10. to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features.
the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive to expressing themselves, as opposed to in a studio,
Peasant Woman

11. August Sander German portrait and documentary photographer 1876-1964
Created some of the 1st environmental portraits

12. August Sanders documented German people with portraits of them in their professions.
How would you document Americans?
Would it be by photographing people at work? At play?

13. What are the differences and similarities of the two images ?

14. Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron – (1815 – 1879) British photographer
Victorian period
Self-taught
Best known for her portraits – sometimes she dressed her subjects up to act out scenes from literature and classical mythology.
Most her images were meant to resemble the dreamlike and softly romantic paintings of the artists or her time.

15. Fantasy Portraits
Beatrice 1866
Zoe-Maid of Athens

16. Lancelot and Guinevere 1873
The Passing of Arthur

17. The Passing of Arthur, 1874

18. Candid Portraits
An unopposed portrait of a person going about his or her daily life.
Not posed
Try to go unnoticed
Include subjects’ surroundings
Capture different emotions
Use a faster shutter speed (1/250 sec.)

19. Walker Evans: Subway Passengers, New York, 1938

20. Portrait Project
Create portraits that tells a story or relays information about the way your subject looks, who they are, or what they think they are. The subject will be the dominant element in the pictures.

21. Portrait Project Create 4 portraits 1. Formal – Studio, posed
2. Environmental – outside or inside (posed/unposed)
3. fictional – 1 studio, posed
-use a costume; become a character from your imagination or someone you aspire to be
4. Candid – capture a spontaneous, slice-of-life photograph of someone engaged in everyday activity.
Subject is in focus, and not posed

22. Julia Margaret Cameron Cindy Sherman
Self-Portrait
Julia Margaret Cameron
Cindy Sherman

23. Self-Portrait – A portrait of a photographer taken by him- or her-self.

24. Movie Still
a photograph taken on or off the set of a movie or television program during production.
main purpose - to help studios advertise and promote their new films and stars
Movie still Dear John

25. Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman – (1954-present) American photographer
made a career out of self-portraits which examines the role of women , and how women are perceived through the eyes of men and through the lenses of various media.
Her style references her influences of movies, tv, popular culture, fairy tales, female stereotypes and art history

26. Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still, no. 92, 1981 >

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Untitled № 153 (head of the drowned

29. Untitled #96, 1981, Farbfoto, Auflage 10, 61 x 121,9 cm

30. Reflective Self-Portrait – a self-portrait taken from looking into a reflective object, such as a mirror or the chrome of a car.

34. Self-Portrait Project
Create photographs of yourself that tells a story or relays information about the way you look, what you think, or who you are. The subject, you , will be the dominant element in the pictures.
Create 2 self-portraits
1. Movie Still – pretend you are a actor/actress in a movie (genre is your choice) – Due11/28
2. Reflective – photograph yourself by looking into a reflective surface (mirror, window). Be creative! Due 11/21